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The Ambassadors de Henry James

The Ambassadors

Autor Henry James
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Găsim în The Ambassadors o structură narativă de o precizie arhitecturală, unde cronologia faptelor cedează locul unei explorări subiective profunde. Henry James alege să ne prezinte întreaga acțiune exclusiv prin lentila conștiinței lui Lambert Strether, un personaj trimis în Europa cu o misiune precisă, dar care sfârșește prin a fi transformat de ceea ce vede. Nu este doar o călătorie geografică din Woollett către Paris, ci o evoluție a percepției, un proces pe care autorul îl numește „demonstrația viziunii”.

La intersecția dintre The American și The Portrait of a Lady, această operă combină analiza contrastelor dintre America și Europa cu o finețe psihologică ce anticipează modernismul literar. Dacă în Washington Square James se concentra pe manierele clasei de mijloc din New York cu o rigoare aproape clinică, în The Ambassadors stilul devine mai fluid, mai ambiguu, asemenea unei picturi impresioniste. Notăm cu interes cum autorul rafinează tema „străinului în Europa”, transformând o situație de comedie socială — recuperarea unui fiu rătăcitor — într-o meditație melancolică despre libertate și iluzia acesteia.

Această ediție din Oxford World's Classics, îngrijită de Christopher Butler, ne ghidează prin complexitatea stilului târziu al lui James, unde fiecare conversație în grădina lui Gloriani sau în saloanele pariziene devine o criză de conștiință. Este, fără îndoială, punctul culminant al carierei sale, o demonstrație de măiestrie în care forma și conținutul se contopesc perfect.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781540411945
ISBN-10: 154041194X
Pagini: 386
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care apreciază proza psihologică rafinată și temele confruntării culturale. Veți câștiga o perspectivă profundă asupra modului în care prejudecățile sunt demontate de experiența directă, totul sub îndemnul celebru al lui Strether: „Trăiește tot ce poți”. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege tranziția către modernism și complexitatea morală a marilor romane ale secolului al XX-lea.

Despre autor

Henry James (1843–1916) a fost un autor american-britanic de o importanță crucială, fiind considerat o figură de tranziție între realismul literar și modernism. Născut în Statele Unite, s-a stabilit ulterior în Anglia, devenind cetățean britanic spre sfârșitul vieții. Este renumit pentru modul în care analizează stările interne și dinamica socială a personajelor sale, folosind un stil bogat în ambiguități psihologice. Operele sale, precum The Ambassadors sau The Portrait of a Lady, explorează frecvent interacțiunile dintre americanii emigrați și societatea europeană, fiind adesea comparate cu pictura impresionistă datorită nuanțelor și perspectivelor suprapuse.

Descriere

Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:
Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by his august patron, Mrs Newsome, is to discover what, or who, is keeping her son Chad in the notorious city of pleasure, and to bring him home. But Strether finds Chad transformed by the influence of a remarkable woman; and as the Parisian spring advances, he himself succumbs to the allure of the 'vast bright Babylon' and to the mysterious charm of Madame de Vionnet. The text of this Oxford World's Classics paperback is that of the New York edition, with James's Preface. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Notă biografică

Henry James was born on 15th April 1843 in Washington Place, New York to a wealthy and intellectual family and as a youth travelled between Europe and America. His first novel, Watch and Ward, was published in 1871 after first appearing serially in Atlantic Monthly. After a brief period in Paris, James moved first to London and then later to Rye in Sussex. He became a British citizen in 1915 to declare his loyalty to his adopted country as well as to protest against America's refusal to enter the war on behalf of Britain. Henry James was a prolific writer and critic and from around 1875 until his death he maintained a strenuous schedule of publications in a variety of genres: novels, short story collections, literary criticism, travel writing, biography and autobiography. He died in 1916.

Descriere scurtă

Lambert Strether, a middle-aged, yet not broadly experienced, man from Woollett, Massachusetts, agrees to assume a mission for his wealthy fiancee: go to Paris and rescue her son, Chad Newsome, from the clutches of a presumably wicked woman. On his journey, Strether stops in England, and there meets Maria Gostrey, an American woman who has lived in Paris for years. Her cynical wit and worldly opinions start to rattle Strether's preconceived view of the situation. In Paris, Strether meets Chad, and is impressed by the much greater sophistication Chad seems to have gained during his years in Europe. Chad takes him to a garden party, where Strether meets Marie de Vionnet, a lovely woman of impeccable manners, separated from her reportedly unpleasant husband, and Jeanne, her exquisite daughter. Strether is confused as to whether Chad is more attracted to the mother or the daughter. At the same time, Strether, himself, feels an overwhelming attraction to Marie de Vionnet, which he suspects she might requite, and so begins questioning his commitment to return to Woollett and marry Chad's mother, despite his admiration for her. All of these impressions of Parisian culture lead Strether to confide in Little Bilham, a friend of Chad's, that he might have missed the best life has to offer; he starts to delight in the loveliness of Paris, and stops Chad from returning to America. Strether's American traveling companion, Waymarsh, provides thematic counterpoint, by refusing to be seduced by the charms of Europe. Meanwhile, Mrs. Newsome, Strether's fiancee and Chad's mother, impatiently waiting in America, enlists new "ambassadors" to return forthwith with Chad. The most important of the new ambassadors, Sarah Pocock, Chad's sister, harshly dismisses Strether's impression that Chad has improved, condemns Marie as an indecent woman, and demands that Chad immediately return to the family business in America. To escape his troubles, Strether takes a brief tour of the French countryside, and accidentally encounters Chad and Marie at a rural inn; he then comprehends the full extent of their romance. After returning to Paris, he counsels Chad not to leave Marie; but Strether finds he is now uncomfortable in Europe. In the event, he declines Maria Gostrey's virtual marriage proposal and returns to America"

Cuprins

General editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Ambassadors; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; List of emendations; Appendices.

Recenzii

'… the Cambridge Edition reproduces James's fiction as it originally appeared to his contemporary book-buying public, collectively charting a half century of artistic development, stylistic invention, and cultural history. It gives readers options, and in the case of The Ambassadors the choice of the Cambridge Edition is a deeply satisfying one. … One of the Cambridge Edition's many strengths is the attention the editors pay to textual history and the historical development of James's fiction within biographical, literary, and cultural contexts … many will agree that the Cambridge Edition is 'quite the best, 'all round' edition …' Sarah Wadsworth, Review of English Studies
'[One of] two handsome volumes in their Cambridge maroon cloth covers with gilt stamping on the binding and James's familiar signature on the covers are crucial additions to the resources scholars will use for generations to study the greatest novelist of the modern period.' John Carlos Rowe, The Henry James Review
'Given that the 'textual condition' of The Ambassadors (to use McGann's phrase) is an excursion into chaos (to use James's phrase), Nicola Bradbury should be crowned in laurels for guiding us with such precision through its various incarnations. The Cambridge edition gives us the evolution of The Ambassadors from 'dropped seed', as James called it, to full-flowering.' Frances Wilson, The Times Literary Supplement